Clermont

For just a couple moments at the beginning of the video, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office seemed poised to repeat something it did last year that was pretty foolish.

That was to have masked men stand menacingly in front of a camera while Sheriff Peyton Grinnell declared that they were coming to get wrong-doers. It looked like something from a country run by thugs and despots.

Then, Grinnell announced that, yes, he’d heard of this “police officers’ lip-sync challenge” making the rounds on the Internet, which he described tongue-in-cheek as “a very serious issue.” The four guys by his side in balaclavas stripped off the masks and yelled, “We accept the challenge!”

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